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A court decision in favor of startup UpCodes may help shape open access to the law

TechCrunch

And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.” Then in 2002, the SBCCI sued Peter Veeck for posting a model building code adopted by local governments on his website, which gave free information about North Texas.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. Because the U.S.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

Gust

There are also many anti-takeover devices available to companies when they go public that put the initial Board at great advantage in terms of preserving control going forward. With all that governance out of the way, let’s take a look at Facebook as the most recent, and most extreme, example of the dual-class voting structure.

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The Innovator's Solution for SaaS Startups - The Flywheel SaaS Company

Tomasz Tunguz

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams.

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